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Most of the franchise candidates we work with at The Empowered Franchisee have never owned a business, and many don’t […]
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Candidates sometimes come to me with a plan to buy an existing franchise. Regardless of how they found out about […]
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Some of the franchise candidates who contact us are trapped in an illusion: they think there’s a perfect time to […]
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I’ve always had a deep respect for servicemembers and veterans, partly because my father served in the Marine Corps. Over […]
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A couple of weeks ago, I posted about options for transitioning from corporate employment to franchise ownership. To recap: while […]
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Last week, I explained that many of my clients want to understand the difference between being a franchise owner-operator and […]
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Deciding you want to be your own boss is one thing. Deciding how to go about it is another. Some […]
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Unlike traditional entrepreneurship, franchising offers two types of ownership options: hands-on or executive ownership. Hands-on ownership means working in the […]
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If you’re like the majority of American workers, you’ve been working from home at least part-time for the last year […]
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Though the current number of women leading Fortune 500 companies is at an all-time high, it’s still disappointingly low. Just […]
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